@streakmachine There’s one in one of the local charity shops. I know 'cos I donated it to them, having no further use for it.
New use for an Android phone with USB-C, USB disk management. I needed to erase a 16 GB USB stick but the Mac (via DiskUtility) wouldn’t unmount the drive so the erasure failed.
Attached a USB-C adaptor & shoved it up the Nokia 7.1 which wouldn’t recognise the drive but did offer to initialise it.
Accepted the offer.
This put it into a state whereby DiskUtility could unmount it & I was then able to erase the drive completely, removing the just-added Android files too.
It’s a throw-away age.
Mum’s bedroom TV (23.6 inch LED) Had been playing up: showed a screensaver when turned on, it could take any time between immediately of 40 minutes before the screensaver would make way for an actual video signal, you couldn’t even select the manual buttond on the rear of the unit, only the power button worked & then not always.
There are two TV retailers in the next town down the highway. There are five in this outer-eastern suburb. But for all that, the cheapest was one of the two stores near Mum. So the fix for the TV problem was to replace it.
Nokia 7.1 has a 3060 mAh battery. The one in the iPhone SE is 85% of its original 1624 mAh. The Nokia has a USB-C power connector (and an 18W charger) and can directly charge other devices through it. It’s charging the SE right now. SE started charge at 52%. I’ll monitor things to see what level the Nokia is at when the SE is fully charged.
@matigo In a slow-to-appreciate way. Screenshots are much easier to take, but the split-screen process is a bit trickier.
Updated Nokia 7.1 to Android Pie when it became available earlier today. Very different in some respects.
Looking at my options with the ALDI mobile plan on the Nokia 7.1, I’d actually come out ahead by getting the $99/12 GB plan & topping it up with a $100/50 GB add-on followed by a $50/20 GB add-on when needed. This comes to 82 GB for $249.
The other 12-month data plan gives 80 GB for $249, but that’s all up-front, rather than waiting for smaller data packs to expire (they must be fully used, can’t be rolled over to the next pack.)
@hazardwarning There’s one particular ISP on the National Broadnand Network here that actually analyses a proposed customers location in relation to nodes, etc. A customer could request a 100 Mbps down/40 Mbps up connection but if the analysis shows the infrastructure can only support 25 down/5 up, then they’ll downgrade the request to match reality.
// @matigo